Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Purpura

I think you'd have to chain him down to keep him from starting.

We suspect that initiatives within its manufacturing operations and a more streamlined supply chain are just part of the reasons for the improved margin profile.

I think a seasonal factor is part of the issue here, but you can't discount it all. Look at what is happening with chain store sales. They've been pretty weak. Some of it (weak retail employment) is real.

I think a lot of the problems they've been having with?supply chain bottlenecks?look like they've kind of worked their way through the system.

Voltaire

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

Saxby Chambliss

He's going to be grilled pretty good about what happened, how it happened and how far up the chain it looks like it went.

There are now Web sites that sell directly to the grower. This bypasses the distribution chain that makes up our core business.

Chain hang to my ding-a-ling, chain hang, chain hang to my ding-a-ling

Our research shows that 83% of leading companies indicate field service optimization is core to improving their competitive positions. True field service optimization requires service organizations to maintain the most cost-effective, productive, and profitable service chain at all times -- especially in the face of a myriad of constraints and interruptions.

part of a chain of international terrorist operations.

Inventory levels throughout the chain remain low, operating rates are high, and fundamental demand continues to build.

Internet-enabling things like vending machines and gasoline pumps not only makes it easier to service and upgrade them remotely, it also provides much higher quality customer data because it removes human error. It also makes supply-and-demand chain operations more efficient and less costly.

In terms of market dynamics, there are many hands in the market share grab. Wal-Mart, Target and department store chains like J.C. Penney and Kohl's will see incremental dollars coming into home furnishing as well.

If you have a foundation, you command a different position in the chain of dollars.

If you're part of the chain of events that make that happen, then your human rights responsibility as a government are engaged.

Spencer Wells

If you go far enough back, your genome connects you with bacteria, butterflies, and barracuda - the great chain of being linked together through DNA.

Bob Barker

In their natural habitat elephants graze up to 20 hours a day. A circus keeps an elephant in chains 90% of the time. They are deprived of water and deprived of food. They are shocked.

In North America, there is a shift to demand-pull manufacturing, which is driving us to more supply chain engagements with customers as opposed to traditional transaction-based distribution.

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I remain concerned that, as yet, we have not been presented with evidence that traces the chain of command and establishes the specific role of each defendant.

Lorene Scafaria

I'm from Jersey, so I have a love of T.G.I. Friday's and chain restaurants in general. When you go to a Friday's, it seems like everyone's on ecstasy and way too happy anyway.

I had seen plenty of these engines hauled around by horses, but this one had a chain that made a connection between the engine and the rear wheels of the wagon-like frame.

Tony Parker

I'm very concerned about it, ... We've not had our chain pulled like this before to realize what a problem there is.

Infrastructure projects create a lot of demand for material, services and manpower. It is a chain reaction; if the infrastructure growth slows down, it will hit overall demand. The supply side has to keep increasing to sustain growth.

In meat production everyone has to be able to trace where the product comes from. The marketing chain has to be made transparent,

I'm going to be sorry to see it go. I'm going to chain myself to the wrecking ball, but they're going to do it anyway.

Theo Epstein

The issues had nothing to do with the chain of command, per se. I'm happy with the chain of command.

Samuel Johnson

The chains of habit are generally too week to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken.

Jay Rockefeller

the chain of command that Duncan Hunter's worried about.

The chain of command is crucial to our case.

Jacque Fresco

We are all an integral part of the chain of life.

The troop is under full control, adhering to the chain of command.

These kinds of trials are generally trial by documents, especially as you go up the chain of command.